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Focus

Focus, or Focus 580, was WILL Radio's flagship talk program from 1981 until 2014. David Inge was the host from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. Always engaging, the program acted as a resource for citizens to directly question politicians and candidates as well as keep up on the arts, science, health, and even the latest from well-known novelists.

The Focus archive below offers thousands of great interviews and serves as a time capsule and a great resource for researchers and those just curious about how influential people spoke of important topics as they were happening.

It’s been a little over two years since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident killed eleven men working on the oil platform and released millions of barrels of oil into the waters of the Gulf. We’ll look back to the events of 2010 and talk about the conditions in the Gulf waters two years later. Our guest will be Doctor Larry McKinney, Executive Director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A and M University.

President Obama has declared that the cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation. But, University of Illinois Law professor Jay Kesan says the public is more concerned about the loss of internet freedoms. Is there a policy that can address both concerns? Jay Kesan will be out guest and we’ll look at what government is doing to guard against cyber-attacks both in terms of protecting the country from attack and punishing successful hackers.

Imagine a world in which the entire global population has access to clean water, food, energy, health care, and education. That vision, says innovation pioneer Peter Diamandis, may not be so impossible after all. Today on Focus, we're joined by award-winning science writer Steven Kotler to discuss the possibility of a future brighter than we've ever pictured and the technology in use today that will guide us toward it.